Dr. Michael Sun was appointed to the Board in March 2014. Dr. Sun worked with Hughes Network Systems, LLC (and together with its subsidiaries, ”Hughes Group”) for more than 20 years, before taking up his current position as CEO of HughesNet China, a joint venture between NGSC and Hughes Group. Dr. Sun is credited with the establishment of Hughes’ operations in China and its development into a dominant supplier of very small aperture terminal (“VSAT”) systems, with customers in almost every major government organization in China. Before working for Hughes, Dr. Sun was employed by General Electric Information Systems (“GE”), where he was responsible for marketing and developing GE’s centralized time-sharing information network service.
Before GE, Dr. Sun worked for Sprint Telenet as Senior Director, Network Design. Dr. Sun started his career with Computer Sciences Corporation where he was a senior program analyst supporting NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1976. He also holds an MSc in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from Marymount University of Virginia and a BSc from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1970.
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